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After three days of information about green tea, surely we’ve covered everything? What more could we include? We’ve covered caffeine, proanthocyanins, and tannins and catechins. Are there still more interesting things to be found in green tea? We find selenium behaving as an anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory in green tea. It is a co-factor in the...

Yep, I’m still going on about the awesome power of green tea extract, but it really does deserve four posts! We’ve already looked at caffeine and proanthocyanins, and tomorrow we’ll take a look at the other things found in green tea. Today – tannins and catechins! Green tea extract is filled to the brim with...

Green tea is so chock full of awesomeness, I had to write a second post (and there’ll be a third and fourth post) to get all the awesome stuff in! Green tea contains up to 30% polyphenolic compounds (of the dry weight) in the form of proanthocyanidins, tannins, catechins, and so on. Let’s take a...

I admit I’ve been a bit wary writing this post. There are so many studies into the benefits of green tea, every time I go to post this, there’s something new! And there’s just so much about green tea to cover, it will take a few days to go ever everything! Green tea extract (INCI:...